Well, we are not windows either! And why do you think that penguins are
small defenseless things? For those leaving under a rock, Linux mascot is a
penguin. In
other word, the emblem of the biggest IT revolution (I actually mean the Free
and Opensource software in general).

Jokes aside, the reasons of this strike are serious, and the way the
government deals with this is probably sub optimal:

having more workers on the market, without having more work is simply a non
sense! You will only be increasing unemployment, so public taxes in the
end.